For many anglers, the arrival of winter ushers in a season of rest and recovery. But for those of us who pursue steelhead, winter is not the time for taking a break. It’s a time to spend long days on ...

Lake Erie’s migratory trout soon will draw anglers from near and far as steelhead trout seek out the rivers where they were stocked so they can spawn. Once the river waters cool down, the fish swim up ...

The spey rod helped Turek make a 90-degree switch in the casting direction of the fly line, a difficult task with a fly rod. "You could do somewhat the same thing with a conventional fly rod by making ...

John Lescroart, author of the best-selling suspense novels with surprise endings, had set the hook on a big steelhead. John's 10-foot fly rod bent down in a huge arc toward the fish, only 10 feet from ...

Steelhead flies are fly tyers' favorites because they are so darn pretty. Much like Atlantic salmon patterns, these flies do not represent aquatic creatures for the most part, but intruders or ...

The photo above is a sampling of what anglers fishing for steelhead in the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries are using. (Thanks to Gander Mountain for letting me borrow the stuff) If you ...

I have known several trout fishers who caught their first steelhead and from that time on, trout season became nothing more than a conditioning program for the fall steelhead runs. Steelhead are not ...

To submit to Umpqua's signature tier program visit umpqua.com/how-to-submit-a-fly/. For beginning tiers, Josh Mills has some advice. First, take a lesson, he said ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The big winds and rain have finally settled down around northern Ohio, and they were the perfect storms for fishermen waiting impatiently for the fall fishing to finally blossom.